04.02.2008 14:12:37
GENEOLOGICAL GENOCIDE OR CULTURAL AMNESIA
– SHARBOT LAKE ALGONQUINS ARE MOHAWKS! WHO KNEW WHAT? WHEN DID THEY KNOW IT?
MNN. Feb. 3, 2008. Everyone has a sense of their own family history. Our parents and grandparents remember where they grew up and what languages they spoke. They remember what their parents told them about the moments of success and the great challenges they had to overcome. Every family learned its own way of surviving, otherwise we wouldn’t be here.
From the looks of it, the “Algonquins” of Sharbot Lake are about to become amusement park Indians. The Ontario and Canadian government bureaucrats have put out a big casting call. To get an acting contract you have to pretend to be an “Algonquin”. Rumor has it you might even get to be a full-fledged Canadian after that.
